Ambedkar's Preamble

Ambedkar's Preamble: A Secret History of the Constitution of India

By Aakash Singh Rathore | Penguin (Vintage)

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Dr. Ambedkar is universally credited as the chief architect of India's Constitution, yet his near-single-handed authorship of its Preamble is rarely discussed — and is frequently, mistakenly, attributed to others. In this revisionist work, philosopher Aakash Singh Rathore reconstructs the intellectual origins of the Preamble's six defining concepts — justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, dignity, and nation — and traces each directly back to Ambedkar's own writings and speeches. Structured around six eponymous chapters, the book uncovers overlooked facts of India's constitutional history and repositions the Preamble as a fundamentally Ambedkarite document, essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the philosophical foundations of the Indian republic.

Why You'll Love This Edition

• Reveals Ambedkar's overlooked authorship of the Constitution's Preamble

• Traces each of the Preamble's six core values to his own writings

• Corrects a long-standing historical misattribution

• Sharp, accessible read described as part detective story, part intellectual history

• A must-read for students of law, political science, and constitutional history, from Namami Prakashan

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